2Īnd, conversely, if you’re using a Mac app that only supports Shortcuts, you can use that path to execute AppleScript scripts or command-line scripts.
But if that pathway will let you run an AppleScript script or a command-line command, you can run a Shortcut from there. Which means that, if I had wanted to, I could have wired up my Stream Deck button with this one-line AppleScript script: do shell script "shortcuts run 'Podcast Note' <<< 'test'"Īmong the roadblocks modern Mac users face are apps, like my Stream Deck plugins, that only offer a single pathway out-whether it’s AppleScript or shell script or something else. This command does exactly 1 what I want: shortcuts run "Podcast Note" <<< "test" Drang, with my memory jogged a lot later by John Gruber) to feed input right into the shortcuts command. I don’t want to save text to a file and then attach it, I just want to pass my text in the same command.īut it turns out you can pass text to shortcuts - you just need to use the <<< operator (which I was informed about by Dr. So this command will fail: shortcuts run "Podcast Note" -i "test" There’s one catch with shortcuts, though-its -i flag to supply input only accepts files, not text. In macOS Monterey, Apple provides a command called shortcuts that lets you list and run shortcuts. Similarly, if I had wanted to control Shortcuts from the Terminal, I could do it there, too.
Would it have been simpler if the Shortcuts plugin for Stream Deck supported this natively? Sure. So I wired my Stream Deck button up to this one-line AppleScript script: tell application "Shortcuts Events" to run the shortcut named "Podcast Note" with input "cough" It lets you run shortcuts from any AppleScript script, without launching the Shortcuts app. Shortcuts Events is completely invisible, and always available. One of the many ways you can activate Shortcuts on the Mac involves using a system app provided by Apple called Shortcuts Events. This is what I mean by getting around roadblocks. I ended up using the Run OSA Script Stream Deck plugin to activate my shortcut… via AppleScript. The current Stream Deck plugin for Shortcuts doesn’t let you pass input on to the Shortcut, which is how I pass text to my note script. Yesterday (and I swear this is not going to turn into yet another post about that podcast note script Dan and I keep bashing around) I decided that there was a feature I could more easily implement in Shortcuts… but that meant that I would need to abandon my original AppleScript script and change how I was kicking off my automations by pressing a button on a Stream Deck. On macOS, there’s usually a way around if you know the tricks. On iOS, that roadblock is often impassable, though that happens less often now than back in the day. When you’re automating something, sometimes you run into a roadblock. Shortcuts, AppleScript, Terminal: Working around automation roadblocks
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